Britain Releases GPS Co-Ordinates of Captured Sailors
March 28, 2007
The British sailors and marines were detained in the Arabian Gulf after searching a merchant vessel.
Iran claims they had illegally entered Iranian waters, but the British Government has insisted that they were in Iraqi territory at all times.
It said today that GPS co-ordinates showed the British vessels were 1.7 nautical miles inside the Iraqi section of the Shatt al Arab waterway, which forms the border between Iraq and Iran.
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